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by cowboysauce 6y ago
Almost certainly not. A nuclear detonation would also produce noticeable seismic effects as well as release iodine-131, which was not detected.
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
The release likely happened during fuel reprocessing. Since fuel is left to cool for at least several months before reprocessing, there’s essentially no I-131 left at that point.
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
That's a completely nonsensical test. I grew up in a small mountain town. Are you telling me that all those people who would flood in during winter weekends and holidays to drink, party and go to the packed ski resorts were introverts?
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
I remember reading about these years ago and I'm surprised that they're still in use. There's definitely a need to control wildlife populations, but doing it with devices that are akin to cyanide landmines seems like a bad id
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
I think you're drastically underestimating how stupid and over-confident people can be. He had a college education, but that doesn't teach you the survival skills needed to live in the wilderness. McCandless spent a few years bumm
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
The national parks are one of the crown jewels of American culture. They manage to hit a sweet spot of ease of access, preservation and diversity in a way that seems to be very rare in the world.
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
>I do have a hard time believing that such a beam can dump enough neutron radiation into a subcritical bomb core to trigger a meltdown or fizzle detonation without also giving a dangerous exposure to any human who is in the way of that b
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
Not really, this is more akin to using a laser to destroy something at a distance. The neutrinos would interact with soil near the weapon, some of these reactions would produce neutrons which would go on to induce fission in the weapon, des
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
You don’t need to mention sexual orientation at all. It’s illegal to fire a woman for being married to a man. If it’s legal to fire a man for being married to a man then you’re discriminating based on sex. The sexual orientations of the peo
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
> I do actually but it's not that much work It apparently is, given that D only supports x86 assembly, doesn't support all instructions and has idiosyncrasies like requiring prefixes to be written as separate instructions.
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
I've used both Unity and Unreal in a professional capacity. The best way to describe Unreal is that is has a specific way that things should be done and once you stray from that, it gets painful. But a lot of the time, you don't k
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
It really depends on what you're using. Most microcontrollers don't require external memory to store their program because it's stored in on-chip flash memory. Additionally, you can generally order microcontrollers from a dis
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7102551/
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by cowboysauce 7y ago
To play devils advocate, cells use RNA and DNA so an alien virus that uses a different type of genetic material would likely be unable to reproduce in cells that use such a strikingly different biochemistry. Detecting such viruses would be
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by cowboysauce 7y ago
I don't think you'd even have to look at extinct life. There's so much life that hasn't been categorized. You can basically take a soil sample from anywhere in the world and find new microorganisms in it. Archea are a gr
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by cowboysauce 7y ago
It seems like the arguments made in the article would more readily support the idea that viruses are spontaneously forming on Earth than in space. If viruses are spontaneously forming on other planets or in interstellar space directly, then
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by cowboysauce 7y ago
in theory it's possible, in practice it's not. DNA encodes the information on how to produce to proteins. Proteins can catalyze chemical reactions. But there's no straightforward to look at a nucleotide sequence and figure ou
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by cowboysauce 7y ago
Actually game theory is probably the better place to look. Though the concept of natural selection already tends to cover the big picture. Organisms need resources to reproduce. Those that can obtain more resources (or use what they have mo
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by cowboysauce 7y ago
Definitely not. Viruses perform key roles in ecosystems, particularly in ocean ecosystems. Their infection and subsequent killing of organisms provides a vital mechanism for cycling nutrients. They also help keep algal blooms in check. Viru
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by cowboysauce 7y ago
> Intoxication has also been reported following skin contact with the plant; a case was reported where a family of five people rubbed the plant onto the skin and were poisoned, with two children dying From Wikipedia
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by cowboysauce 7y ago
It's akin to saying "Why is everyone concerned about this Volcano erupting? Plants will flourish in the resulting rich, volcanic soil" The statement is completely true, but it misses the point as to why people are concerned a
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by cowboysauce 7y ago
That's not unique to French, nearly every language has some pretty large differences between the colloquial language and the more formal language. Arabic is particularly difficult is this regard because modern standard arabic serves as
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by cowboysauce 7y ago
> Getting an Iranian entry visa as an American without a government minder was bit trickier How did you manage that? I thought that it was required for American citizens to have a tour guide with them at all times. Did you get some sort
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by cowboysauce 7y ago
>Sure, but we know the flu is deadly and relatively communicable and we certainly don't take this level of precaution. The death rate for the flu averages around 0.1%. The Wuhan virus is currently just over 3%, the 1918 flu that kil
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by cowboysauce 7y ago
His story is full of holes. He claims that he has a master’a degree in physics, but cannot produce a diploma, his master’s thesis of the names of any classmates or professors. Furthermore, he has never demonstrated that level of knowledge o
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by cowboysauce 8y ago
I think the big problem is that all those fields are still very new and the thing they're studying is extremely complex and hard to directly study. I'd argue that chemistry really began with Lavoisier in the late 1700s. Physics? L
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by cowboysauce 8y ago
>do we still need things like VM, paging, and segmentation? Yes. To begin with, on modern processors, paging is tied with the memory protection system. Memory is protected on a per-page basis. Memory mapped files are implemented through
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by cowboysauce 8y ago
Tell me, how do stimulants make someone more compliant? Why is it that when someone comes to the hospital in an agitated state, they aren’t given adderall? Why isn’t ritalin given before surgery? Why are people with schizophrenia given anti
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by cowboysauce 8y ago
I think you've got this backwards. You don't need to understand the notation, you need to understand the math. If you don't understand the notation then you probably don't understand the math in the first place so learni
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by cowboysauce 8y ago
They're completely different. Psychedelics change your perception and thought processes in a way that's completely different than a lucid dream.

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